Benoît Poelvoorde
Audiences rate Benoît Poelvoorde’s films lower than 72% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Benoît Poelvoorde (69.2%) is the average audience approval rating across 22 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Benoît's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor, comedian, and filmmaker, born on September 22, 1964, in Namur, Belgium. He first gained recognition with the cult film C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992), a darkly comedic mockumentary where he played a serial killer with unsettling charm. This film launched his career and established his unique blend of humor and intensity. Throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, Poelvoorde became a staple of Franco-Belgian cinema, starring in comedies like Les Randonneurs (1997), Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert (2001), and Podium (2004), where he portrayed an obsessive Claude François impersonator—a role that earned him a César nomination. His versatility allowed him to transition into more dramatic roles, such as Entre ses mains (2005) and Coco avant Chanel (2009), where he starred alongside Audrey Tautou. In recent years, Poelvoorde has continued to balance absurdist comedy (Au poste !, Fumer fait tousser) with auteur-driven projects (Le Tout Nouveau Testament, Saint-Amour). His ability to oscillate between slapstick humor and introspective performances makes him one of the most distinctive actors in European cinema
Born 1964-09-22.
On ThumbScore, Benoît Poelvoorde appears in 22 films with an average audience score of 69.2%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.
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